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that's friendofdenesh.com. Coming up with special episode, I'll explore the contemporary

implications of Ben Franklin's warning that the founders gave us a republic.

Quote, if you can keep it, have we kept it? I want to argue there's a wide gap between the

America, the founders intended and the America we have now, but how do we get from the original

plan, the original constitutional scheme, to the mess that we are in now. I'll highlight some

landmark Supreme Court decisions, paving the way for the Democrats and the left to distort and

abuse the constitutional structure, so carefully installed by the founders. Hey, if you're watching

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Denesh D'Souza Show. America needs this voice. The times are crazy and the time of confusion,

division and lies. We need a brave voice of reason, understanding and truth. This is the Denesh D'Souza

podcast. Ben Franklin was asked what kind of government the founders had given to the American

people and he famously replied a republic if you can keep it. Now there are two aspects of this

that are worth stressing. The first is the if you can keep it and here is Ben Franklin 200 and more

years ago, essentially saying that the American recipe is not a guarantee. It doesn't last forever

by itself. It is the job of the American people of us. In fact, it's the job of each generation

to protect the Constitution, to protect the structure or the set of arrangements that the founders

put into place to protect the Bill of Rights that was later appended to the original Constitution,

so if you can keep it means that it can be lost. It can be endangered and the American experiment

can in fact go down. It doesn't mean America sees us to exist. Geographically America continues

to exist. In fact, geographically America has expanded considerably since the days of the

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